you can also modify a regular router with custom firmware that allows it to act as a repeater, but what happens if you have a gap between users? (oceans come to mind, although what if you have a gap from city A to cityB with no users in between?) wifi has somewhat limited range, so you need some way to bridge those gaps effectively if you want to avoid dependence on big buisiness/government infrastructure.
Setting up mesh networks is one of the newer things going on. Also really configuring guest SSiD to do extra stuff ( share files / act as hangouts / etc )
Lookup Repeaters.
They’re all over.
you can also modify a regular router with custom firmware that allows it to act as a repeater, but what happens if you have a gap between users? (oceans come to mind, although what if you have a gap from city A to cityB with no users in between?) wifi has somewhat limited range, so you need some way to bridge those gaps effectively if you want to avoid dependence on big buisiness/government infrastructure.
Checkout some of the features of Tomato / Merlin / DD-WRT
https://dd-wrt.com/
Setting up mesh networks is one of the newer things going on. Also really configuring guest SSiD to do extra stuff ( share files / act as hangouts / etc )
Clearly I've been out of the loop too long lol.
Thanks, ill have to look into it